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To: worksinjammies who wrote (115997)	9/20/2007 11:29:38 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 361688

Holy Shit!! I'm going to bed. Just decided to stall a bit longer on the Drum, and this... American spy satellite downed in Peru as US nuclear attack on Iran thwarted Russian military intelligence analysts are reporting today that one of the United States most secretive spy satellites, the KH-13, targeting Iran was 'destroyed in its orbit' with its main power generator powered by the radioactive isotope Pu-238 surviving re-entry and crashing in a remote region of the South American Nation of Peru, and where hundreds are reported to be ill from radiation poisoning. english.pravda.ru. news.bbc.co.uk Somebody let me know how it turns out. Lots of on-going discussion.. theoildrum.com +, I don't know if I posted an article, but I think somebody dd; about a B-52 with cruise missiles..Okla? Can't remember. They were kicking that story around a lot, too. And tying it in to this one, now.

To: worksinjammies who wrote (115997)	9/20/2007 12:54:58 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 361688

This is Hell ALEC BALDWIN Posted September 20, 2007 Reading coverage of Alan Greenspan's book, wherein he pulls an Eisenhower as he heads out the door, alerting his countrymen to the duplicity of US foreign policy, I add Greenspan's name to the list of learned, sophisticated, ambitious men and women who will end their careers, in some form, tarnished, defeated or shamed while serving in the Bush-Cheney outfit. Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Alberto Gonzales. Note that the uber White Man, Donald Rumsfeld, runs for the hills with nary an insight or comment to explain away any of it. Harriet Miers. Petreus. Even hacks like Robert Novak descend to the level of Super Hack in pursuit of a corner of Cheney's ass to bury their nose in. Some of these are decent men and women who squandered their energies, careers and reputations, believing they were serving their country. When I studied politics at George Washington University in the late '70s, they taught us that the men who would make the best public servants were opting out of the process, post-Watergate. The people who would make the best Presidents, Congressmen and Senators want nothing to do with the process. This country is in the worst condition I have ever seen. We are faced with problems that will destroy both this country and the world's environment if we stay the course that the GOP has piloted since 1980. A course that rapes the land, plunges our nation deeper into debt, crushes any hope of real and effective oversight of industry by government regulators, maintains a permanent underclass in our ranks and abroad, denies health care, denies education, prosecutes and imprisons the powerless, kills American men and women needlessly in a trumped-up war, allows fanatical US Christian conservatives to demand a war for oil, rebukes honest and empirically substantiated scientific discoveries and kills innocent Iraqis by the hundreds of thousands in pursuit of the Bush family's sick agenda in the Middle East. This course must be altered, and drastically so, or we will see the twilight of our great country in my lifetime. More importantly, it can be altered in the next election if we are rational. Brave and rational. We must take risks in the name of American democracy. Risk that someone with a new idea might really be on to something. That is why this is Hell. The answers are there. But our leaders are ignoring them. At times, they are not only ignoring them, they are hiding them from us, willfully and maliciously. huffingtonpost.com